From His Grace Bishop MAXIM

Biography of His Grace Bishop Maxim

The Birth of the Church

Now the family of God can come into being. “To all who received Him … He gave the power to become children of God” (Jn 1:12). With the Passion, the Resurrection, the Ascension, and Pentecost, we have the creation of the Church. In other words, we have the new yeast that “leavens the whole lump.” We have the Kingdom of Heaven, which exists in potential within each human being, which exists within us all and can make each man expand and rise until he discovers the real, charismatic dimensions for which he was first created, and becomes god by grace.

So we enter the communion of the Saints, where human beings are nourished by Christ, as the branches are nourished by the vine, and they too be­come Christs by grace. In the same way, everyone who has entered into the Liturgy sees the “words,” the inner principles of existent things, concelebrating with the one incarnate Word, “the One who offers and is offered” in the Liturgy of the whole world.

The whole life of the world, its creation, and its history are a Divine Liturgy which leads all things to a blessed end. “Things below are joined to things above.” (from the feast of the Annunciation). One who is truly baptized into the spirit of the Divine Liturgy never departs from that spirit. He is always within the Divine Liturgy. Everything is revealed to him in concelebrating, voluntarily or involuntarily, with the one Word. And this person in every time and place is nourished by the music of heaven. He receives light from the Light which knows no evening. And he goes forward, while remaining in the same place, because his inner doxology and joy never stop.